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Berry Beer Baked Beans Recipe

A simple yet over-the-top flavorful baked bean recipe dedicated to my dad. Beans are immersed in a decadent swamp of berry beer, dried berries, molasses, broth, and a few other flavorful accents.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Berry and beer work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

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By 101cookbooks. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Berry + beertop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Cranberry + berrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Onion + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Cranberry + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Olive + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together26,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cranberry, olive, molasses, mustard, pepper, berry, beer):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cranberry, olive, molasses, mustard, pepper, berry, beer. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).